Claims by the fake news media that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a rabid bigot who only cares about the rights of white heterosexuals fell by the wayside Monday when the despised law enforcement chief unexpectedly praised a recent application of America’s hate crime laws.

“Today’s sentencing reflects the importance of holding individuals accountable when they commit violent acts against transgender individuals,” Sessions said in a statement, referencing a 49-year federal hate crime sentence imposed earlier that day on Joshua Vallum, who two years ago murdered his girlfriend after discovering she was transgender.

“The Justice Department will continue its efforts to vindicate the rights of those individuals who are affected by bias motivated crimes,” the attorney general added.

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As noted by Vice magazine, Vallum’s case had been closely watched by LGBT advocates, “particularly those who were skeptical about whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions would vigorously enforce federal hate crime protections for those who suffered violence or discrimination due to their gender identity or sexual orientation.”

A number of news reports and columns had sprung up in the wake of Session’s nomination late last year, with liberal reporter after liberal reporter decrying the former senator’s alleged “record of opposing gay rights.”

According to LGBTQ Nation, these concerns had been based on the former senator’s 2009 decision to vote against added hate crime protections on the basis that “the law was overly broad and … it (was) unnecessary to include further protections for LGBTQ people.”

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They assumed that just because Sessions had been against proffering special rights and privileges to the LGBT community, he must by default hate gay and transgender people. They were dead wrong, as usual.

In a column published last December in the Washington Examiner, attorney Alan Sears explained that Sessions’ real record was that of “a person who enforced the law with fairness, honor and compassion.”

“Using such standards of review, he is an outstanding choice for U.S. attorney general who will surprise his most outspoken critics with his concern for their rights and for constitutional order,” he accurately predicted.